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Evidence, Goals, and Outcomes in Stuttering Treatment: Applications with an Adolescent Who Stutters
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Marcotte, Anne K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this clinical focus article is to summarize 1 possible process that a clinician might follow in designing and conducting a treatment program with John, a 14-year-old male individual who stutters. Method: The available research evidence, practitioner experience, and consideration of individual preferences are combined to…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Speech Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Adolescents
Incorporating a Mindfulness Meditation Exercise into a Stuttering Treatment Program
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Emge, Greta; Pellowski, Mark W. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2019
A mindfulness meditation exercise was incorporated into a stuttering treatment program for an adult male who stutters. Speech disfluencies were analyzed before and after mindfulness meditation and implementation of fluency shaping techniques. Findings suggested that including a mindfulness meditation exercise into a treatment program may be…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Outcomes of Treatment, Adults, Males
Stuttering in Preschool Children: Direct versus Indirect Treatment
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Nippold, Marilyn A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to discuss the controversial topic of stuttering in preschool children and how to evaluate the options for treatment, emphasizing the role of external research evidence. Method: A hypothetical but realistic case study of a 3-year-old boy who stutters is described. Two contrasting approaches to treatment are…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Preschool Children, Case Studies, Allied Health Personnel
Prolonged Speech and Modification of Stuttering: Perceptual, Acoustic, and Electroglottographic Data.
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Packman, Ann; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
This study investigated changes in the speech patterns of young adult male subjects when stuttering was modified by deliberately prolonging speech. Three subjects showed clinically significant stuttering reductions when using prolonged speech to reduce their stuttering. Resulting speech was perceptually stutter free. Acoustic and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Males, Outcomes of Treatment, Speech Impairments
Cortical Plasticity Associated with Stuttering Therapy
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Neumann, Katrin; Preibisch, Christine; Euler, Harald A.; von Gudenberg, Alexander Wolff; Lanfermann, Heinrich; Gall, Volker; Giraud, Anne-Lise – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2005
Neuroimaging studies have indicated that persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) may be associated both with an abnormality in white matter of left-hemispheric speech areas and a right-hemispheric hyperactivity. The latter may compensate for the deficient structural connectivity in the left hemisphere. To investigate the effects of stuttering…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Stuttering, Hyperactivity, Brain
Progression of Language Complexity during Treatment with the Lidcombe Program for Early Stuttering Intervention
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Lattermann, Christina; Shenker, Rosalee C.; Thordardottir, Elin – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2005
The Lidcombe Program is an operant treatment for early stuttering. Outcomes indicate that the program is effective; however, the underlying mechanisms leading to a successful reduction of stuttering remain unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine whether fluency achieved with the Lidcombe Program was accompanied by concomitant reduction…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stuttering, Linguistics, Language Impairments